Biden is clearing the bench to get all the worst voices to chime in on his Green New Deal.
Epoch Times (7/31/20) reports: "Joe Biden’s proposed plan 'to meet the existential threat of climate change' by achieving a 'carbon pollution-free' power sector by 2035 proceeds from faulty scientific assumptions, according to energy policy analysts and a Princeton physicist. The former vice president and presumptive Democratic presidential nominee unveiled his plan to 'build a modern sustainable infrastructure and an equitable clean energy future' on July 14. The proposal to replace carbon-emitting power sources with wind and solar energy by 2035 is one of seven 'key elements' of the plan which draws heavily from a task force Biden formed with Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, who had previously challenged Biden for the nomination...But Dan Kish, a senior vice president for policy at the American Energy Alliance based in Washington D.C., sees a palpable connection between Biden’s formal proposal and the task force. 'Joe Biden’s energy plan was sprung from the loins of Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, who headed up his task force,' Kish said in an email. 'But the Green New Deal has its roots in much, much more than energy, as her chief of staff let slip to the Washington Post, when he said, 'it wasn’t originally a climate thing at all … we really think of it as a how-do-you-change-the-entire-economy thing."'"
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"In the oceangoing transport sector, the Jones Act’s beneficiaries are a dwindling handful of decrepit shipyards on the verge of bankruptcy, labor unions whose membership would expand dramatically if we could only free the whole sector from the law’s false 'protection,' and the lobbyists and venal politicians who cash in on this policy of “America Last.” Mend it or end it."
– Mario Loyola,
Competitive Enterprise Institute
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